Just months after the television anime ended, a new project titled Dr. Stone Terraforming has been announced and is already in production, according to IGN India and GMA Network.

The sequel will continue the story beyond the conclusion of the television series, adapting the Terraforming episode included in the manga's 27th and final volume — material set after the manga's main story concluded. No release date or further production details have been announced so far.

The announcement follows the television anime's finale on June 25, 2026, meaning fans will not have to wait long in narrative terms for Senku Ishigami and his companions to return for another scientific adventure.

The surprise is that the story continues at all. The anime's final season, Science Future, was widely understood to conclude the adaptation of Riichiro Inagaki and Boichi's manga, which ended its Weekly Shonen Jump run in March 2022 after 27 collected volumes.

Yet author Riichiro Inagaki himself responded to the news by joking that the series was continuing after its finale.

'And yet, there's more to the story...!!' he said, adding that Senku and the others' scientific adventures were not actually over and asking viewers to keep watching a little longer, before signing off with 'This is insanely exciting!'

According to GMA Network, the sequel specifically adapts the manga's epilogue chapter, meaning the final volume's extra material was always a spare part waiting to be animated.

The announcement came through the anime's official website and social media accounts, as reported by GMA Network, with IGN India detailing the production facts.

The material being adapted sits in the 27th volume: Inagaki's story, illustrated by Boichi, began publication in Weekly Shonen Jump in March 2017 and concluded in March 2022, with the additional chapter in the final volume extending the story beyond its main conclusion.

The anime adaptation has been produced by TMS Entertainment since its 2019 debut, running through Stone Wars, New World, and the final season Science Future.

IGN India also summarizes the premise: Senku, a science prodigy who awakens thousands of years after humanity turns to stone, rebuilds civilization from scratch through scientific discovery.

The decision to animate epilogue material from a completed manga sets a template other finished series will be watched against.

For TMS Entertainment, Terraforming extends a franchise that has already sustained four television seasons, and for Shueisha it demonstrates that even a concluded Jump series can generate new anime when its final volume holds unfilmed material.

Inagaki's own framing — that the adventures 'were not actually over' — signals the publisher treats the world as ongoing property rather than a closed story.

What comes next is largely undisclosed: both IGN India and GMA Network report the sequel is in production with no release date attached.

Fans know the shape of the adaptation, though — the Terraforming episode from volume 27 — which lets readers of the manga anticipate roughly the story beat awaiting the anime, even as its runtime and staffing remain unannounced.

GMA Network's coverage arrived alongside other 2026 anime news, including its report that the Kagurabachi anime will stream on Crunchyroll in April 2027, underscoring how crowded the announcement season has become.

Until a date is fixed, the confirmed milestone is simply this: a series that said goodbye in June 2026 is already coming back.

Because the sequel adapts the final volume's epilogue rather than new manga chapters, the source material already exists in print, and both outlets describe it as post-story content set after the manga's main conclusion.

That distinction matters for fans: Terraforming is not a continuation invented for television, but an adaptation of chapters Inagaki and Boichi published as part of the 27-volume run, which began in Weekly Shonen Jump in March 2017.

IGN India describes it as bringing Senku and his companions back for another scientific adventure, and the author's celebratory message confirms the story's continuation is one he personally wanted to see.

Further production details, staff and scheduling are expected to emerge as the project develops.